You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.
DOROTHY PARKER[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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Ducking for apples — change one letter and it’s the story of my life.
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If I didn’t care for fun and such, I’d probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn.
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Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
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Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
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Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
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Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
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If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
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[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
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Said after she had been seriously ill: The doctors were very brave about it.
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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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